Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman and opposition activist

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a Russian entrepreneur and former political prisoner of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Prior to his arrest in 2003, Khodorkovsky was the head of Yukos, one of Russia’s largest oil producers, and an increasingly outspoken critic of corruption in Russian life. He began funding opposition parties and established Open Russia, a non-governmental organization promoting a strong civil society. Khodorkovsky was arrested, charged with fraud and tax evasion, and sentenced to nine years in prison, which was extended to 11 years after his second trial. Khodorkovsky, declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, was released in December 2013. In September 2014, Khodorkovsky re-launched Open Russia as a movement aimed at uniting pro-European Russian citizens. An active Ukraine supporter after the start of Russian aggression, he’s the founder of the Anti-War Committee of Russia in 2022.

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Mikhail 's Books

The Russia Conundrum - How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit-and How to Fix It (2022)

The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit-and How to Fix It

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My Fellow Prisoners (2014)

My Fellow Prisoners

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How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin

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